On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > 2012/8/13 Snaevar <snaevar-w...@gmx.com>: >> > For example: >> > * The interwiki bots' will definitely have to be modified for the >> > Wikidata age. Did anybody start a conversation with the operators of >> > these bots? >> >> MerlIwBot is the only bot that is compatible with Wikidata. > > Is there any reason not to make the others compatible, too? IIRC, they > all use the same upstream pywikipedia code. Or am I naïve?
No reason, no. I am not sure what the status is there. If you look at http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/wiki/Special:RecentChanges and show bot edits you can see that MerlIwBot is already busy. Merlissimo: Can you comment on this? >> Lydia has started a conversation with the operators of the bots that have >> volunteered to transit interwiki links to Wikidata. > > Is it public? No, I didn't get to it yet beyond what you saw above. It's still on my todo unfortunately. >> > * How will bots identify pages that use Wikidata? >> >> Is this http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MerlIwBot/WikiData what you are >> looking for? > > Well, probably. Probing Wikidata and seeing whether the page appears > there sounds reasonable. If everybody uses it, of course. What happens > if a bot doesn't behave well and does add a plain old interlanguage > link to a page that is already connected to Wikidata? Which link will > be shown to the reader - the old, the new, or both? The local one will overwrite the one in Wikidata. So the local one is shown. > And what to do > with the bot account - block it to make the operator notice that he > should upgrade? That is a decision the editors and admins have to make. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
